This document discusses key issues in corporate governance. It begins by defining corporate governance as the interaction between shareholders, the board of directors, and management in directing a company. It then lists 7 main issues: 1) Remuneration and rewarding of directors, 2) The board's responsibility for risk management and internal controls, 3) Reliability of financial reporting and external auditors, 4) Duties of directors, 5) Shareholders' rights and responsibilities, 6) Separation of the CEO and chairperson roles, and 7) Corporate social responsibility and business ethics. For each issue, it provides 1-2 paragraphs explaining the relevance and concerns around each topic.

1. ISSUES IN
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
By Abdul Razak.R

2. Corporate Governance
• Corporate Governance is the interaction
between various participants (shareholders,
board of directors, and company’s
management) in shaping corporation’s
performance and the way it is proceeding
towards.
• It is the technique by which companies are
directed and managed.

3. Corporate Governance
• It is the technique by which companies are directed
and managed.
• In narrow sense, corporate governance deals with
maximizing the shareholder’s wealth.
• In broader perspective, it considers the welfare of
the all stakeholders and the society.

4. Why Corporate Governance ?
• Better access to external finance
• Lower costs of capital – interest rates on loans
• Improved company performance –
sustainability
• Higher firm valuation and share performance
• Reduced risk of corporate crisis and scandals

5. Corporate Governance - Parties
• 1. Share-holders
Those that own the company.
• 2. Directors
Guardians of the company’s assets fot the
shareholder.
• Manager
Who use the company’s assets.

6. Various issues of corporate
governance
• Experts identify various critical issues which
require detailed understanding and remedial
mechanism for effecting corporate
governance practices.

7. ISSUES IN
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
• 1. Remuneration and Reward of Directors
• 2. Board’s Responsibility for Risk Management and
Internal Control
• 3. Reliability of Financial Reporting and External Auditors
• 4. Duties of Directors
• 5. Shareholders’ Rights and Responsibilities
• 6. Separation of the roles of CEO and chairperson
• 7. Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics

8. ISSUES IN
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
1. Remuneration and Reward of Directors
• Directors being paid excessive bonuses and salaries have
been identified as significant corporate abuses for a large
number of years.
• It is, however, unavoidable that the corporate governance
codes have been targeted this significant issue

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
2. Board’s Responsibility for Risk Management
& Internal Control
• If the board does not arrange the regular meetings in order
to consider the organizational activities systematically show
that the board is not meeting their responsibilities.
• It results in the poor system that may unable to report and
measure the risks associated with business

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
3. Reliability of Financial Reporting & External
Auditors
• Financial reporting and auditing issue are seen more critical
to corporate governance by the investors because of their
main consideration in ensuring management accountability.
• It is the reason that they have been must debated and the
focus of serious litigation.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
4. Duties of Directors
• The corporate governance reports have aimed to build on
the directors’ duties as defined in statutory and case law
duties of directors.
• These include the fiduciary duties to act in the best interests
of the company, use their powers for a purpose, avoid
conflicts of interest and exercise a duty of care.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
5. Shareholders’ Rights and Responsibilities
• Shareholders’ role and rights is subject of particular
importance.
• They should be informed about all those information that
are material to them because these information may
influence their amount of investment.
• They should also be given the right to vote on policies
affecting the governance of organization

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
6. Separation of the roles of CEO & chairperson
• It is now increasingly being realized that the practice of
combining the role of chair person with that of the CEO as is
done in countries like the US and INDIA leads to conflicts in
decision making and too much concentration of power in
one person resulting in unsavory consequences.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
7. Corporate Social Responsibility & Business
Ethics
• The lack of mutual decision and sense of responsibility for
businesses and stakeholders has unavoidably turned out the
business ethics and social responsibility a significant part of
corporate governance debate.

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